New healer; getting Sage to 80?

[Travel]

Alright. Thanks for the help, gents; not gonna lie, a bit nervous about running this job, but I'm certainly gonna give it a try.

Wish my friends were playing the game these days; would help reduce my new healer anxiety, but I guess it can't be helped. Thinking about running a few lower-level dungeons to ease myself in, then trying to grind Levelling Roulettes and the highest-level dungeons that I have.

Thanks for the tips, guys! Glad you're actually willing to help out, unlike Reddit and Discord.

[Rilifane]

Alright. Thanks for the help, gents; not gonna lie, a bit nervous about running this job, but I'm certainly gonna give it a try.

Wish my friends were playing the game these days; would help reduce my new healer anxiety, but I guess it can't be helped. Thinking about running a few lower-level dungeons to ease myself in, then trying to grind Levelling Roulettes and the highest-level dungeons that I have.

Thanks for the tips, guys! Glad you're actually willing to help out, unlike Reddit and Discord.

Running a few low level dungeons is a good idea.
I'd personally recommend:
- Cutter's Cry (38), you have access to Kardia, Physis and Soteria, you also have EProg as a GCD heal.
Aim to minimize EProg usage by relying on Physis, Sorteria and Kardia auto heals as much as possible. You can also practice switching Kardia to someone else for a few GCDs if only one other person took damage

- Dusk Vigil (51), you now have access to Addersgall heals: Druochole, Kerachole and Ixochole
Practice using Kerachole for the 10% mitigation on mob pulls and healing the tank as necessary with Druo in addition to using Physis and Soteria. Keep your Addersgall stacks running, don't sit on 3 stacks and wait for emergencies. Practice spreading them out, e.g. Kera at the start of the pull so your 3rd stack can recover again and Physis, Soteria and Druo once the tank dropped despite Physis and Kardia heals. Every second you sit on 3 stacks during a pull, you waste MP and free healing. Ixo is mainly for boss aoes if the party really needs healing but Physis is down.

- Sirensong Sea (61), you have also access to Physis II and Taurochole.
Practice snapshotting the heal buff from Physis II for additional healing from Druo/ Tauro, this requires you to use Physis II when the tank already suffered an HP loss. Practice rotating Kera and Tauro for ideally constant 10% mitigation on the tank.

This would be the short route for practicing, of course you can also do a seperate dungeon for every new heal ability you get.
Always keep in mind that even if an ability aoe heals, it doesn't mean it shouldn't/ can't be used for tank healing; it's free healing, it should be used. The only exception is Ixochole as it competes with 1 Addersgall stack with Tauro/ Druo while healing less per target.

Another rule of thumb is that 2min cooldowns are up every 2nd pull with how most tanks pull while every 60s or below cooldown is up every pull. So use Physis liberally. Tauro can and should be used every pull.
Bosses are the easiest to heal, don't hold your resources for them; it's the big pulls that require most tank healing.
Practice spreading your resources evenly without sitting on cooldowns, don't use 4 abilities at once and then desperately EProg spam. Haima + Kera is almost like a tank invuln with a whooping 1800 potency auto shield, no need to use anything on top of that.
And throw some EProgs while the tank is pulling so they don't start with 30% HP once standing still. But if someone dies, so be it. It's not the end of the world, you have the right to practice and make mistakes along the way.

And don't be scared to try healer, it's indeed the easiest role; it just looks difficult from the outside. Pretty much everything we said here are already extremely good habits that don't just aim to make everyone survive but also be efficient with it. So if you execute only part of that you'll already play way above of what I usually see in DF which is... EProg spam all day.
You would probably be entirely fine by just spamming EProg and occasionally remembering that OGCDs exist while using everything at once in full panic mode. But please don't